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live Stock in Germany. 



hides 14,000 tons ; tallow, 14,400 tons ; sundries (blood? 

 bones, &c.), 6,000 tons ; giving a total of 147,487 tons. 



The expense of running the factories is stated to have 

 amounted to £2,743,055, made up as follows : — Staff, ,£164,725 ; 

 purchase of stock, £2,416,665 ; fuel, ,£45,000; sundries, 

 £116,665. 



The freezing companies buy the cattle direct from stock 

 owners, slaughter, clean and freeze them on their own premises, 

 and make regular shipments of the meat on their own steamers, 

 or on steamers with which they have contracts for the purpose. 

 The companies never freeze and store for shipment the meat of 

 private owners. This method is said to have undoubtedly kept 

 down the prices of live stock since the closing of the British ports 

 to Argentine animals, as there is practically no competition 

 among the companies. On the other hand, it is held to have 

 ensured the supply only of good meat, carefully slaughtered, 

 cleaned, and prepared. The trade has been reduced to so 

 regular a system that there is no break in arrivals in 

 England, no excessive storage charges are incurred on either 

 side, and no stale carcases are put on the market. Most of the 

 Argentine frozen meat is landed in Liverpool, the remainder 

 being landed at London, Cardiff, Newcastle, Hull, and 

 Southampton. 



In 1901, thirty-three steamers were regularly employed in 

 this trade between England and Argentina, having a total 

 carrying capacity of 1,443,000 carcases of mutton of 56 lb. each. 



This trade has not in any way affected the old-established 

 industry of drying and salting beef called " charque," the 

 countries of consumption and the customers being entirely 

 different in each case. 



It is reported that two more freezing companies have been 

 floated and will shortly erect the necessary buildings and 

 machinery, one at La P.lata and the other close to Buenos 

 Ayres. 



Live Stock in Germany. 



The results of the German census, of animals, taken on 

 December 1st, 1900, show that there has been an increase in 



